I used to really piss hippies by telling them that anything food put in a food processor is processed food. This includes your homemade hummus & raw smoothies.

Yes, when people get to a certain level of rich, they generally lack vision and imagination; they don’t need it anymore.

I think there’s a lot of money to be made in confronting climate change… but it will be made more than two fiscal quarters in the future, so capitalists are not just willing, but actually proud to ignore it.

I wonder if short hops in electric propeller planes are gonna take over everything in a few years. Like it will be the cheapest option for any trip under about 800 miles. Cheaper than driving, even in an electric car. A few Canadian companies are already doing this with seaplanes, where most of the trips are under 30 minutes anyway.

This tech is mature, in the US we’re just waiting on the FAA to certify it.

I’ve just been saying “go woke or go broke” for a little while now.

The meme says “one white guy who really fucks with keeping the fire going.” He’s clearly not fucking with the fire. He’s keeping it going.

Yes, and also, LLM’s aren’t as reliable at transcription as Dragon Dictation was back in 2010.

It’s shocking how crappy AI is, we’re actually moving backwards in real time.

I wish it was corruption like that. I think it’s even sillier. Trump is like “Steam is what they used when I was a kid, so it must be the best, anything newer is woke”

If you think that your colleagues represent the majority of people, you may be in for a rude awakening.

I live in Seattle. The local trade schools are filling up with programmers learning to be carpenters because they hate AI so much.

The acceptable inaccurate result rate is 0%. I think that’s unachievable by LLM tech.

Then these people aren’t using DDG anyway, so why should DDG be trying to appeal to them?

Anecdotally, according to the internet my ~14 year old graphics card is worth more than 2x what I paid for it. So…

My issue is that people have been saying “yeah, it’s a bit iffy, but it’ll get better” since 2022. It’s been four years. When is it actually gonna get better… enough?

Based on my understanding of the underlying tech, it will always have some level of making shit up. That, combined with the fact that all of these companies are spending more money running data centers than they have coming in, implies to me that this tech (at least in the current form of cloud-based chatbots) isn’t staying around long-term. No one is actually making money off of it except the hardware vendors. None of these AI companies are what my grandpa would’ve called a “going concern.” So I haven’t felt much desire to get into it.

I typically like new technology as it comes out, but I haven’t found LLM’s to be very impressive or inspiring.

Ah yes, five weeks, the legal minimum in France 😭

So, I love boats and sailing.

Megayachts aren’t for people who love boats and sailing, they’re for rich people who love the privacy of having a mobile private island. In their operation (big diesel engines, fiberglass hulls made with MEK, dumping raw sewage and such), they pollute a lot more than basically any other method of travel/living.

The people at Gabe Newell’s company probably make decent money. But it’s a dangerous job working with extremely toxic chemicals (if it’s good for the boat, it’s bad for the environment, and it’s bad for the workers). A lot of them probably have to retire early with health problems.

I love boats and sailing, but this megayacht shit sucks.

So glad we’ve been spending billions building and stockpiling these things for my entire life, only to run out after [checks notes] six months of bullshit that accomplished nothing.

This would hold up better if I could get a non-shitty car made in the USA. Alas…

Truly, it would be difficult for the Chinese to do a worse job of making cars than the planned obsolescence crap we’ve come up with.

Was it really that innovative? It was just myspace for college students

IMO it’s almost worse than if G+ flopped completely. Google+ was actually awesome for the specific world of smalltime pen and paper RPGs. But of course, that one creative community of people designing & publishing cool stuff wasn’t enough to justify its cost, or challenge Facebook for supremacy, so they pulled the plug even though plenty of people were still using it. Just a waste.

Right? Imagine if all of the money spent “building out” the metaverse had been invested in improving infrastructure in real life…